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March in London earlier this month against the Housing Bill

Tory Bill will ‘kill social housing’ warn councils

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THE new Tory Housing and Planning Bill will ‘kill social housing’ a leading West Midlands councillor Frank Allen warned yesterday. All over the country council...

US BEGINS NEW ARMS RACE! – as Senate agrees to spend £1.37 trillion next...

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THE US has begun a new arms race with President Trump’s announcement of the US’ formal withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF). This...

Parliament recalled: over war on Syria

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PARLIAMENT is being recalled tomorrow with prime minister Cameron demanding Labour support for his ‘clear motion’ for military action against Syria. Downing Street released a...
The George Fox Six.  Photo credit: George Fox Six Supporters Group

Police threat to arrest Gate Gourmet pickets

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GATE GOURMET locked-out workers were made to dismantle their picket tent and move from the Gate Gourmet factory gates by Heathrow Airport police yesterday. ‘I...

Abbas welcomes Trump as Palestine explodes

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PALESTINIAN President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Palestinian presidential palace in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem yesterday morning. Some...

‘No credible route to a zero Covid UK’ says Johnson setting out ‘road map...

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‘THERE IS no credible route to a zero Covid Britain or indeed a zero Covid world,’ Tory PM Johnson told Parliament yesterday, setting out...
Cameron has earned intense hostility of workers with his savage cuts policy

BRING DOWN COALITION IN 2013 – victory to World Socialist Revolution

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2013 Manifesto – STATEMENT BY THE NEWS LINE EDITORIAL BOARD THE News Line editorial board sends its revolutionary greetings for the year 2013 to the...
Masses of firefighters took part in yesterday’s demonstration and showed their determination to beat this reactionary Tory-led government

‘We rescue people not banks’ say 4,000 firefighters marching in London

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OVER 4,000 firefighters marched through central London yesterday against attacks on their pensions and cuts to the fire service. The front banner read: ‘We Rescue...

1.1m households can’t afford to pay for heating!

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1.1 MILLION households who cannot afford to heat their home to a comfortable level are in work, according to a new report by the...

University fees & loan hikes rushed through!

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LEGISLATION has been raced through Parliament before it breaks up for the general election which allows universities to raise tuition fees every year until...
Greek museum workers’ and secondary school teachers’ banners on the coordinated trade union march last Thursday

Greek workers and youth on the way to an unprising!

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ATHENS – Greek workers and youth are on the road to an uprising! Mass rallies and demonstrations are taking place throughout Greece as part of...
Loyalists opposed to the Sinn Féin protest parade against the British army in Belfast

BRITISH ARMY ‘WRONG IN IRELAND, IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN’ – Gerry Kelly tells Sinn Féin...

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BY JOHN COULTER, IRISH POLITICAL JOURNALIST Sinn Féin and families of the victims of British state violence, yesterday held their rally in opposition to...
Gate Gourmet pickets in confident mood earlier this month

INVESTIGATE MET BOSS BLAIR – IPCC urges Home Secretary

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The Jean Charles de Menezes Family Campaign issued a statement yesterday claiming a victory in their fight for the full truth about the police...
Ten thousand marched through Ealing to defend their District General Hospital and many said they were prepared to occupy to keep the hospital open

NHS has £4bn surplus! – while hospitals are going bust

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THE NHS is sitting on £4 billion of reserve cash whilst unprecedented government cuts of £20bn have doubled the number of hospitals falling into...

Eu Shares And Banks Crash

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UK share prices crashed yesterday, wiping over £85bn off the London Stock Exchange, with the FTSE 100 index crashing 391 points or 7.85% to...
Demonstrators expressing their anger as they passed the US embassy in London on the 30,000-strong march demanding an end to the Israeli attack on the Lebanon

Hezbollah Battles Israel To A Standstill

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HEZBOLLAH forces have battled Israel to standstill. After over four days of fierce fighting, Israeli forces were still struggling to take control of the Lebanese...

SA miners strike spreads –as murder charges provisionally dropped

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SOUTH AFRICAN prosecutors yesterday ‘provisionally’ dropped murder charges against 270 miners, 34 of whose colleagues were shot dead by police last month. Many of the...
Junior doctors recently came out to defend the whole of the NHS – they were allowed to fight alone

‘General Practice–is in danger of going under!’

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HELEN Stokes-Lampard, chair of the Royal College of GPs Council, the UK’s leading doctor, warned yesterday that General Practice is in danger of...

FAMILIES £40bn IN DEBT! – ‘alarm bells should be ringing’

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BRITISH public finances worsened in November, meaning that Tory Chancellor George Osborne will spectacularly fail to hit his budget deficit target for this year...

Fight Honda Sackings

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THE Unite union yesterday called Honda’s decision to cut 800 jobs at its Swindon plant a ‘hammer blow’ to UK manufacturing and the local...
‘Back Bombardier – Save Our Jobs’ was the message from the trade unions outside parliament yesterday

Bombardier Workers Lobby Parliament

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TWO hundred Bombardier workers and their supporters descended on parliament yesterday to urge the Tory coalition ‘to save British train manufacturing’. The government has already...

WE’LL STRIKE ON PENSIONS! say the rail trade unions

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TENS of thousands of rail workers in dozens of infrastructure and operating companies are to be balloted for strike action. This is after employers...

ROYAL MAIL TO IMPOSE CHANGES – CWU to carry on talking

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THE Communication Workers Union yesterday announced new strikes before the end of September, if no agreement is reached with Royal Mail, who intend to...

‘NO TIME FOR NATIONALISM!’ – 5,000 car workers march to Antwerp plant

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5,000 European workers marched to the Opel plant in Antwerp yesterday afternoon to demand that it must not close as a result of the...

‘END ALL FEES’ –demands YS National Secretary

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‘IT is not enough for tuition fees to be reduced they must be abolished in their entirety!’ said Joshua Ogunleye, national secretary of the...
North East London Council of Action march in Enfield against the closure of Chase Farm Hospital

‘CUTS TO NHS ‘RISK TO LIVES’ – warns RCN leader

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‘We don’t comment on leaked documents but our concerns remain about the competitive elements in the government’s NHS reforms,’ a British Medical Association (BMA)...
Remploy workers taking part in the national demonstration against cuts in disabled people’s benefits in May this year

DEFEND 4,000 REMPLOY JOBS! GMB demonstration in Sheffield today

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The GMB trade union is holding a demonstration in Sheffield and a rally in Wakefield today, to defend 4,000 Remploy jobs. The GMB warned...

Markets Dive

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FOLOWING last Friday’s booting of the USA off its top-tier AAA credit rating, there were big falls in the world’s money markets yesterday. The...
ASLEF Southern rail picket line – they have just rejected the sell-out deal

Aslef drivers stand fast–throw out GTR-TUC sell-out deal!

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ASLEF drivers have rejected the GTR-TUC proposed ‘resolution’ to the long-running dispute with Southern Railways. ASLEF said: ‘The following question was put to our driver...

St Helier to close A&E and Maternity units

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HEALTH bosses have recommended that St Helier Hospital lose its A&E and maternity departments. At a meeting on Wednesday afternoon, the programme board of the...
Over 4,000 marched through central London last week against the coalition’s privatising Health and Social Care Bill

MILLIONS WASTED ON PRIVATEERS –it will be worse if Health Bill is enacted warns...

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‘This is the danger of using the private sector to deliver our health services,’ a Unison spokeswoman told News Line. ‘We’ve always warned that the...

Date called for nurses indicative strike ballot – RCN demands 12.5% pay rise

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THE ROYAL College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday announced the dates for the indicative ballot for strike action demanding a 12.5% pay increase. The ballot opens on...
A thousand-strong demonstration outside Downing Street on April 20th against Labour’s new legislation discriminating against doctors from the Commonwealth countries

MADNESS! – RCN condemns destruction of nurse training places

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) yesterday slammed as ‘madness’ the destruction of nurses training places. The RCN was responding to a survey by the...
'NOT GUILTY' – court decides for Chase Farm occupier! Occupation not illegal!

‘NOT GUILTY’ – court decides for Chase Farm occupier! Occupation not illegal!

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JOSHUA OGUNLEYE was found not guilty of the charge ‘obstruct/resist a constable in the execution of duty’ in a trial held at Highbury...

Labour Is Planning Big Welfare Cuts!

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LABOUR Chancellor Rachel Reeves is planning to initiate a new regime of widespread welfare cuts, throwing thousands of sick, disabled and mentally ill off...
Rally to defend St Helier and Epsom hospitals last November when there were protests about patients being served cold meals  – now St Helier Trust  is removing light bulbs to cut bills

‘Worst Kind Of Penny-Pinching’

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‘It’s penny-pinching of the worst kind,’ a UNISON spokeswoman told News Line yesterday. She was commenting on the removal of every other light bulb...

Barts strikers fighting for the NHS

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WORKERS at the Barts group of hospitals in east London, began a 12 day strike yesterday, running until 17 November, fighting for safe staffing,...
Passenger protest against rail fare hikes outside King’s Cross station on January 1st 2016

3.4% Rail Hike ‘Kick In Teeth’

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TRAIN fares in Britain will go up by an average of 3.4% from 2nd January, the biggest rise since 2013, and described by rail...
Unite members with their banner on the ‘Save Our NHS’ march against privatisation

Unite ‘reassures members’ over NHS pay claim!

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UNITE national officer for health Sarah Carpenter said yesterday: ‘A story appeared in The Guardian today (Friday 9 March) about an impending pay deal...

EIGHT UNIONS SUPPORT VESTAS OCCUPATION! – as police crack down

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Workers staging the third day of a sit-in protest at the Vestas Wind Systems wind turbine factory in Newport Isle of Wight, yesterday said...
A group of Chagos Islanders outside the Houses of Parliament with GMB official PAUL MALONEY

‘WE MUST RETURN TO DIEGO GARCIA’ say Chagos islanders

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‘We will return to our islands,’ chanted over 150 Chagos islanders, British trade unionists and youth outside the House of Lords yesterday. The mass picket...
Junior doctors during their dispute warned that the Tories would put the NHS up for sale

GPs FACE PRIVATISATION! – warning from the BMA

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GPs FACE takeover by commercial providers warns the BMA. Plans to introduce ICPs (Integrated Care Providers) in England must not allow private firms to...
FBU members and residents from the Buncefield area picketing 10 Downing Street on Wednesday night

Union solicitors urging members to sign deal

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‘WE are asking all trade unions and all trade unionists to join our march and rally in Hounslow on Saturday 25th of March,’ Sharanjit...

Parliament Square protest – ‘No extradition for Assange’

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‘THERE is only one decision! No Extradition!’ shouted supporters of Julian Assange outside London’s Supreme Court in Parliament Square yesterday. Nellie Arequipa was with her...